The NBA will allow teams to open their practice facilities in some cities beginning May 1. With the COVID-19 situation putting the brakes on the sports world, the NBA has made a pretty significant step in getting closer to the notion of still having a season. Adrian Wojnarowski tweeted that beginning on May 1, the
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6:55 PM ET The NBA is reopening team practice facilities for players in states and municipalities that are loosening stay-at-home restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic beginning on Friday, sources told ESPN. Players can return to team facilities in states such as Georgia for voluntary individual workouts as soon as next week, which allows for NBA
How different would the NBA landscape look if Lonzo Ball had fallen to the Denver Nuggets at No. 13 in the 2017 NBA Draft? The FanSided NBA Network has been turning NBA history on its head with the 2017 NBA Re-Draft, giving teams their chance to redo that impactful draft over from scratch. While Markelle
7:00 AM ET Editor’s note: This as-told-to, from Phil Jackson, was originally published in the May 4, 1998, issue of ESPN The Magazine. In what appears to be the final season of the Chicago Bulls‘ 1990s reign, coach Phil Jackson has periodically collected his thoughts and analyzed the swirling action around him. Beginning with a
12:30 PM ET On Sunday night, as Cleveland Cavaliers forward Larry Nance Jr. sat down with his family to watch the first two episodes of ESPN’s 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, he was suddenly transported to his rookie season playing alongside Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant. As he watched
The Players’ Tribune culled their archives for the best Michael Jordan stories from their years of athlete interviews. Here are a few of the best lines. The Players Tribune has spent years interviewing athletes and even if he wasn’t the focus, Michael Jordan’s name had a way of coming up. With The Last Dance dominating the
8:00 AM ET MY OLDEST SON was 5, in his second month of kindergarten, when his teacher asked why his dad hadn’t been seen in the pickup line for a couple of weeks. “He’s living with Dennis Rodman,” my son answered, dripping nonchalance, as if this were a task every Catholic-school dad would eventually get
The Phoenix Suns held a media conference call on Thursday with head coach Monty Williams and general manager James Jones to talk about the suspended NBA season, offering insight on this new reality for their players. It’s been over a month since the NBA abruptly suspended its season amidst concerns over novel coronavirus, and for
To grasp how one can be underrated, the definition for rated must be first observed, obviously. Taking a page out of the apathetic/lazy/Jeff Winger best man speech how-to guide and textbook, Webster’s Dictionary states that rate (and its many tenses) is to “assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale.” In
8:49 AM ET Let’s punctuate the waiting game with five things from actual NBA games: 1. Bring back great starting lineup introductions This is one of the most important takeaways from “The Last Dance”: We need to restore starting lineup introductions to their Jordan-era glory. All these years later, I still get goosebumps when that
The Philadelphia 76ers seemed to have a model for success in 2018. Then everything changed. Did the front office focus on the wrong things coming out of a playoff loss to the Boston Celtics? The 2017-18 season was probably the most fun Philadelphia 76ers fans have ever experienced. The team was expected to be better than its
How different would the NBA look if the Philadelphia 76ers drafted Jayson Tatum first overall in 2017 instead of Markelle Fultz? When a butterfly flaps its wings, it causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. For the next 10 days, the FanSided NBA Network is creating hurricanes with a massive re-do of
NBA Jam? NBA Live 95? NBA 2k11? Find out which games make the list as the 10 best NBA video games of all-time. From the moment I first picked up an NES controller at age four to today, I’ve been obsessed with basketball video games. Whether it be crude early NES basketball games like Double
12:43 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN In an attempt to stay connected during the NBA shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said the team has had an assortment of guest speakers talk to its players over the past few weeks. “We’ve had Mark Wahlberg, who was great,” Ainge
To grasp how one can be underrated, the definition for rated must be first observed, obviously. Taking a page out of the apathetic/lazy/Jeff Winger best man speech how-to guide and textbook, Webster’s Dictionary states that rate (and its many tenses) is to “assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale.” In
3:34 PM ET Three months after the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, nearly 100 items of Bryant memorabilia — including game-worn sneakers from the NBA Finals and a championship ring originally belonging to his mother, Pam Bryant — are being auctioned off. “We believe it is the largest collection ever in one place of Kobe
The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. As you could probably tell from our nonstop coverage over the last week, The Last Dance has been a big deal here at The Step Back (and everywhere else, for
8:25 AM ET The 1990s Chicago Bulls will always be remembered as Michael Jordan‘s team, but the triumphant basketball dynasty was bookended by virtuosic performances that go beyond the GOAT. Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman provided the team with defensive greatness that helped ensure the Bulls went a perfect 6-0 in the NBA Finals. Both
7:25 PM ET NEW YORK — After testing positive for the coronavirus, New York Knicks owner James Dolan has recovered and is volunteering to donate blood plasma for various medical trials, a team spokesperson confirmed to ESPN. Dolan’s second test — nearly three-and-a-half weeks after the positive test result — was negative. He has registered
The 2020 NBA Draft is full of uncertainty but Florida State’s Devin Vassell doesn’t have much mystery to him. Devin Vassell has been one of the draft’s biggest risers throughout this season. Starting on most boards in the late first or early second round at the beginning of the year, Vassell projected early on as
Is Vince Carter the greatest dunker ever? Why did he quit on the Raptors? What was the best version of VC? Our Vince Carter FAQ has all your answers. Vince Carter was one of the most explosive leapers the game had ever seen, one giant quick-twitch muscle waiting to fire. But after 22 seasons, he finishes
6:34 PM ET Should the NBA set a plan in place to restart in the coming months, it will need to include a runway of “at least” three or four weeks for players to prepare to play games, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul said Wednesday. “I’m just letting you know, and I don’t think
To grasp how one can be underrated, the definition for rated must be first observed, obviously. Taking a page out of the apathetic/lazy/Jeff Winger best man speech how-to guide and textbook, Webster’s Dictionary states that rate (and its many tenses) is to “assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale.” In
6:54 AM ET When Kendrick Perkins emerged as a key member of the Boston Celtics team that won the 2008 NBA championship, he credited his growth to Doc Rivers, the coach he called his “father figure.” That is, until his “father” shipped him to Oklahoma City in 2011. “Yeah, I didn’t like that,” Perkins told
The Whiteboard is The Step Back’s daily basketball newsletter, covering the NBA, WNBA and more. Subscribe here to get it delivered to you via email each morning. If you’re looking to find some aspect of NBA minutiae to blow your mind, there is literally no better source than NBA Reddit. And in these days of
2:52 AM ET The Nigerian basketball community was as stunned as the rest of the world when news broke that Brooklyn Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie was in the process of acquiring a Nigerian passport, which could see him represent the African nation at the next Olympics. It comes barely two months after the Nigerians
With the actual NBA Draft in flux, FanSided’s NBA Network site experts are looking back and reselecting the 2017 draft. The FanSided NBA Network Mock Draft has become a yearly tradition, with our site experts from each of our NBA blogs sharing their team-focused expertise and making draft selections for the teams they represent. This
To grasp how one can be underrated, the definition for rated must be first observed, obviously. Taking a page out of the apathetic/lazy/Jeff Winger best man speech how-to guide and textbook, Webster’s Dictionary states that rate (and its many tenses) is to “assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale.” In
4:16 PM ET Former Chicago Bulls teammates Michael Jordan and Steve Kerr have had their disagreements before, but this one probably won’t end with anyone getting punched in the face. Jordan took an unflinching stance in Episode 2 of the documentary series “The Last Dance” when addressing then-teammate Scottie Pippen’s decision to delay foot surgery
Even if the NBA regular season is canceled, we’ve seen enough to start assessing the first seasons of notable rookies. What did the Golden State Warriors see from Jordan Poole and Ky Bowman? Essentially nothing has gone according to plan for the Warriors over the past year. They were upset by the Raptors in the
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